Science Communication, Group M

1. Prepare for Open Day activities:
   1. Environmental Science, Physics and Plant Science groups make sure your know where your presentation files are and practises:
      1. 10:00 TAP That! Bottled Water vs. Tap Water in Pretoria
      2. 12:00 Physics of a Braai!
      3. 12:45 GM Maize - do you know what you eat?
   2. Busking: All Science Busking volunteers to meet with Affinity and work out a schedule and decide on topics.
2. Everybody: Review the feedback you received from me - it is in your folders on the file server- and do some of the missing assignments.
3. Reflect on your Science Shows under the following topics:
   1. What was good?
   2. What was not good/did not work/embarrassing?
   3. What would you do differently if you could do it again?
   4. What did you learn?
   5. If you did not take part in the show, state why not.
      After hearing your friends talk about the experience, are you sorry you missed out?
4. And for the last time - update your electronic diary!!!!!
5. Enjoy Open Day!
6. Your last - farewell meeting - will be on 4 August;
   please try to come so that we can take a last group photo with everybody being present.

1. Science in the News
2. Science Shows:
   1. Finalise structure of show
   2. Practise, practise and
   3. Rehearse and review.
3. Plan for 'Open Day' on 19 May
   1. Groups to present: Environmental Science, Physics, Plant Science.
   2. Busking? Any Volunteers?
4. Build a mini spectroscope. - no time
5. Review the feedback you received and do some of the missing assignments - no time
6. Update electronic diary.

1. Set questions for the Water and Energy quiz.
2. Pixton comic introduction by Irene. Create your own 'Green Living' comic.
3. Let's play: "The Brain of WES (Water and Energy Saving)"
4. First rehearsal of Science Show.
5. View the results of the Re-survey.
6. Make your pledge.
7. Update electronic diary.

Have a great loooooong weekend! See you all on 21 April.

1. Energy and Water discussion.
2. Prepare for the "The Brain of WES (Water and Energy Saving)" quiz.
   Groups as for the 'Dialogue in the Dark' excursion
3. Visti to Sci-Bono and 'Dialogue in the Dark'
   Read the newspaper articles about the exhibition:
   1. Blog from Gus Silber http://gussilber.posterous.com/none-more-black-dialogue-in-the-dark-at-the-s
   2. Cornel van Heerden's blog: http://cornelvanheerden.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
4. Discussion and update electronic diary.
5. Set questions for the WES quiz.

1. Science in the News.
2. Go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/9K2PXVP and complete the survey using your homework as guideline.
3. Do the "Where stuff comes from" activity.
4. Read chapter 15, Stuff, of David MacKay's Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air.
5. Complete the 'Green Bingo' questionnaire; then play 'Green Bingo'! (postponed)
6. Plant something!
7. After lunch, design your science show and try a few 'tricks'
8. Update your electronic diary.

Homework for 5 April - complete the Energy and Water consumption worksheet; bring along tomorrow.

1. Science in the News.
2. Upload your Globe at Night observations.
3. Update your electronic diary; write something about Earth Hour.
4. Do the lunch hour assignment: Reduce, repair, re-use, recycle.
5. Start your "Where stuff comes from" activity.
6. Brainstorm in your groups about a 'Science Show' topic and explore possible activities.

Homework for 3 April : Do your 'Reduce, repair, re-use, recycle' Homework.
and bring an empty 2 l cooldrink bottle to Sci-Enza tomorrow.

1. Science in the News.
2. Analyse your food label questionnaires and prepare a presentation. (Activity 6).
3. Prepare for Globe at Night and Earth Hour.
4. Advice: How to apply to UP (Mr Petrus Lombard did not turn up! ;-(()
5. Fun with Tongue Depressors!
6. Foodlabel Questionnaire presentations.
7. At the end of the day – update your electronic diary.

Homework for 2 April 2012:

• Take part in Globe at Night - to download Stellarium, a free open source planetarium for your computer, go to www.stellarium.org/
• Take part in Earth hour

1. Science in the News
2. Prepare your food label questionnaires (Activity 6)
3. Launchbox!
4. Start your electronic diary with entries about your research project from last year and your puppet show. Name your diary yoursurnameDiary.doc

1. Prepare for Expo
2. Choose a food ingredient for your Food Label Card and do the research.
3. Learn how to fold an Origami Paper Crane.
4. Do the Communications Challenge! - Just for Fun and to learn something.
5. In your group, design a questionnaire for the Food Label Survey and capture it on the computer.
6. Start your electronic diary -next time?
 

Homework for 17 September:

• Fold a few paper cranes for World Peace Day on 21 September